tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post2840834153440669283..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: The "u" words . . .Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-4415795633682132062012-12-23T18:13:13.520-05:002012-12-23T18:13:13.520-05:00PS - The U.S. went to war against Germany in Decem...PS - The U.S. went to war against Germany in December 1941 but it was far from clear until after the German defeats at Stalingrad and Kursk in 1943 that the Soviets would prevail over the Germans. Even in December 1941 there was no urgency whatsoever about a possible Soviet victory.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-31496603002603108512012-12-23T18:02:42.094-05:002012-12-23T18:02:42.094-05:00Lend Lease Act was enacted March 11, 1941. German...Lend Lease Act was enacted March 11, 1941. Germany didn't attack the Soviet Union until three months later, on June 22, 1941. FDR wanted desperately to get into the war before that but even then the U.S. didn't declare war against Germany until December 11, 1941. <br /><br />Moreover, the warm affection that FDR had for Stalin and the huge amount of materiel we sent the Soviets hardly bespeaks hostility towards the U.S.S.R. U.S. film propaganda for domestic consumption was slavish in its adulation of the Soviets. "Mission to Moscow" was a disgusting collection of lies about our Ambassador Joseph Davies and what a wonderful place the Soviet Union was and it was specifically intended to rally support for aid to the it.<br /><br />If anything, the Americans have been quite ambivalent toward communism, and some positively slobber over it as can be seen from "president" Obama's appointment of Van Jones to a position in his administration. To this day, it is a major goal of the left in the U.S., the Democrat Party being our left-wing party, of course, to do all in its power to attack anyone who points out that FDR's key adviser at Yalta was the communist Alger Hiss. <br /><br />Eugene Lyon's <i>The Red Decade</i> is a chilling account of the degree to which America was infiltrated by communists and FDR himself, an admirer of Italian fascism, even said that come of his best friends were communists and what's the big deal about communism. Alas, I can't put my finger on the exact quote.<br /><br />I am aware of no statement by FDR that showed that he had the tiniest aversion to communism. If he admired <a href="http://dailyreckoning.com/the-eight-marks-of-fascist-policy/#ixzz1aKKU80kp" rel="nofollow">Mussolini</a> of "All within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State" fame, why would he have had any aversion to communists, let alone have <i>gone to war</i> in order to discredit them somehow?Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-60519287158961533742012-12-22T22:32:23.764-05:002012-12-22T22:32:23.764-05:00Nitpick: Part of the reason for entering WWII was ...Nitpick: Part of the reason for entering WWII was to prevent the Communists from getting all the credit for defeating the Nazis (and consequently ruling all of Europe). In other words, it was partly about freedom from Communism.Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04720409839023747889noreply@blogger.com